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Slashdot: Faraday Future's Last Founding Executive Resigns, Plans Emergency Fund For Employees

Faraday Future's Last Founding Executive Resigns, Plans Emergency Fund For Employees Published on November 01, 2018 at 04:10AM Faraday Future, the startup that is working on a luxury self-driving electric car that looks to rival Tesla, is facing some management and investment issues. All five of the company's "founding executives" have resigned. The latest is Dag Reckhorn, Faraday Future's senior vice president of global manufacturing. "The news comes after investor trouble sparked two wild weeks of layoffs and salary cuts that quickly turned into furloughs and executive departures at the EV startup, and a co-founder calling the company 'effectively insolvent,'" reports The Verge. "Reckhorn said in his email to staff that he is working to establish an emergency fund for employees affected by the furlough." From the report: "I am heartbroken to have to let you know, that I will leave FF effective today," Reckhorn wrote in the...
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Slashdot: Experimental AI Lie Detector Will Help Screen EU Travelers

Experimental AI Lie Detector Will Help Screen EU Travelers Published on November 01, 2018 at 03:34AM SeriousSamy shares a report from Engadget: In the future, you might talk to an AI to cross borders in the European Union. The EU and Hungary's National Police will run a six-month pilot project, iBorderCtrl, that will help screen travelers in Hungary, Greece and Latvia. The system will have you upload photos of your passport, visa and proof of funds, and then use a webcam to answer basic questions from a personalized AI border agent. The virtual officer will use AI to detect the facial microexpressions that can reveal when someone is lying. At the border, human agents will use that info to determine what to do next -- if there are signs of lying or a photo mismatch, they'll perform a more stringent check. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Slashdot: Flex Logix Says It's Solved Deep Learning's DRAM Problem

Flex Logix Says It's Solved Deep Learning's DRAM Problem Published on November 01, 2018 at 02:55AM An anonymous reader quotes a report from IEEE Spectrum: Deep learning has a DRAM problem. Systems designed to do difficult things in real time, such as telling a cat from a kid in a car's backup camera video stream, are continuously shuttling the data that makes up the neural network's guts from memory to the processor. The problem, according to startup Flex Logix, isn't a lack of storage for that data; it's a lack of bandwidth between the processor and memory. Some systems need four or even eight DRAM chips to sling the 100s of gigabits to the processor, which adds a lot of space and consumes considerable power. Flex Logix says that the interconnect technology and tile-based architecture it developed for reconfigurable chips will lead to AI systems that need the bandwidth of only a single DRAM chip and consume one-tenth the power. Mountain View-based Flex Logix ...
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Get ready to be completely charmed by Rebel Wilson in rom-com send up 'Isn't It Romantic'

Shirtless Liam Hemsworth in a "PG-13" setting is only part of this sensational sales pitch.  So, yeah. We know you're in.  Rebel Wilson's new romantic comedy Isn't It Romantic is set to take tired idyllic tropes and spin them into modern-day satiric gold. One part Pitch Perfect reunion, one part I Feel Pretty spin-off with just a sprinkling of Groundhog Day, this lovey-dovey sendup spotlights the cynical Natalie, played by Wilson, as she comes to terms with her newfound existence in... a romantic comedy.  From a "gay sidekick" to a Vanessa Carlton soundtrack, Natalie's new universe is basically an AI-written rom-com, the perfect foil to Wilson's tongue-in-cheek comedy style. Adam DeVine, Priyanka Chopra, Betty Gilpin and, it bears repeating, a shirtless Liam Hemsworth round out the cast.  Read more... More about Entertainment , Adam Devine , Trailer , Rebel Wilson , and Priyanka Chopra from Mashable https://ift.tt/2CQT5UO
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Ted Cruz makes a Zodiac Killer Halloween joke in a last-ditch effort to be relatable

The timeline just got a whole lot darker.  Still recovering from getting roasted for the time the Texas GOP tried to go after Beto O'Rourke for being cool , Ted Cruz has made a last ditch effort to be relatable. SEE ALSO: Once again, Ted Cruz's face is a meme Cruz tweeted a picture of the Zodiac Killer's cryptic cipher on Wednesday, adding a festive "Happy Halloween."  Happy Halloween pic.twitter.com/jIgTaIMzep — Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) October 31, 2018 It's not the first time Cruz has acknowledged the meme that claims he was the the Zodiac Killer. Last year, he replied to a tweet with the same cipher.  Read more... More about Ted Cruz , Zodiac Killer , Culture , and Web Culture from Mashable https://ift.tt/2ERfswg
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